Error Message: The Account-Identifier Allocator Failed to Initialize Properly

ID: Q248410

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following event approximately every two minutes in the NTDS event log:

Event 16550

MessageId=0x410A

SymbolicName=SAMMSG_RID_INIT_FAILURE
Language=English
The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize properly. The record data contains the NT error code that caused the failure. Windows 2000 will retry the initialization until it succeeds; until that time, account creation will be denied on this Domain Controller. Please look for other SAM event logs that may indicate the exact reason for the failure.

CAUSE

This error message can occur because the RID Master FSMO is unavailable or failing to replicate. The Domain Controller cannot obtain and initialize the RID pool.

RESOLUTION

To troubleshoot this issue, check the NTDS event log for further detail about the replication failure.

Determine the RID Master FSMO by following the steps in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Q234790 How to Find FSMO Role Holders (Servers).

Verify network connectivity by using the PING command. For additional information about how to use the PING command, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q169790 How to Troubleshoot Basic TCP/IP Problems in Windows NT 4.0

Q200525 Using NSlookup.exe

If the RID Master is down for an extended period of time then follow steps in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Q223787 Flexible Single Master Operation Transfer and Seizure Process

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg kbnetwork ntdomain
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb